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Skin Reacts Abnormally to Light (Photosensitivity)
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Skin Reacts Abnormally to Light (Photosensitivity)
Photosensitivity is an increased or abnormal skin response to either sunlight or artificial light.
Symptom classification
Body areaEntire Body
Body areaSkin
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
18- Acute Intermittent Porphyria
- Albinism
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Cataract
- Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
- Dermatomyositis
- Erythropoietic Protoporphyria
- Hartnup Disease
- Hepatoerythropoietic Porphyria
- Keratitis
- Photosensitivity
- Subacute Meningitis
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- Superficial Punctate Keratitis
- Sympathetic Ophthalmia
- Toxoplasmosis
- Variegate Porphyria
- Vitiligo
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
34- Acitretin
- Adapalene
- Amiodarone
- Captopril
- Ciprofloxacin
- Cotrimoxazole
- Dacarbazine
- Diclofenac
- Diltiazem
- Doxycycline
- fluorouracil
- Flutamide
- Fosinopril
- Frusemide (Furosemide)
- Gemfibrozil
- Griseofulvin
- Homatropine
- Hydrochlorothiazide
- Hydroxychloroquine
- Ibuprofen
- Lisinopril
- Methotrexate
- Naproxen
- Norfloxacin
- Olanzapine
- Phenylephrine
- Rabeprazole
- Sulfadiazine
- Sulindac
- Tetracycline
- Thioridazine
- Tiaprofenic Acid
- Trandolapril
- Tretinoin